ClickUp

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

ClickUp

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build upon and integrate customer feedback, both internal and external, into our API tooling and shared services.
  • Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems while collaborating closely with other teams.
  • Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities.
  • Uphold the highest levels of customer satisfaction in all things you do.
  • Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering through collaboration, automation, and outreach.
  • Own integrations within our API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production.
  • Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services.
  • Help grow our infrastructure engineering organization’s shared services relied upon by other engineering teams to accelerate product development.
  • Support the platform capabilities that power ClickUp’s AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns.
  • Strong understanding of CAP Theorem and distributed systems design patterns.
  • Proficient with TypeScript.
  • Proficient with Golang.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
  • Strong consideration for developer experience in everything you build.
  • Pragmatic approach to software design, development, and delivery.
  • Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns.
  • Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.
  • Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards.
  • Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems.
Benefits
  • Equity
  • 401k
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Spending accounts
  • Life & Disability
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Enhanced employee assistance program
  • Employee wellness stipend
  • Professional development stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
API standardsAPI designAPI integration patternsCAP Theoremdistributed systems design patternsTypeScriptGolangKafkaBackend for Frontend (BFF) patternsMCP protocol
Soft Skills
communication skillsownershipaccountabilitydeveloper experiencepragmatic approach
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science